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The U.S. Agriculture Department announced Monday it will close nearly 260 offices nationwide, a move that won praise for cutting costs but raised concerns about the possible effect on food safety.Continue Reading

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture says it’s traced the contaminated eggs to the Larry Schultz Organic Farm in Owatonna, where tests confirmed the presence of salmonella. Farm owners are cooperating with the investigation and have issued a voluntary recall of the eggs. Continue Reading

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture says it’s traced the contaminated eggs to the Larry Schultz Organic Farm in Owatonna, where tests confirmed the presence of salmonella. Farm owners are cooperating with the investigation and have issued a voluntary recall of the eggs. Continue Reading

“Some will say these tragedies confirm all that is wrong with how food is grown, distributed and sold in the U.S. and much of the developed world,” Minneapolis columnist Eric Wieffering writes. “I’d argue the opposite: that the recalls prove that the U.S. food safety system works far better than most people give it credit for.” Continue Reading

The first sickness was in March. The first outbreak signs appeared in May. So why the wait? Tracking down the source of an illness is a difficult, complicated business, and federal officials defended the months-long process today by saying they wanted to be absolutely sure before they asked Cargill to initiate the third-largest meat recall in history. Continue Reading